Arch Madness basketball is upon us. As visitors from all over the Midwest converge on downtown for some hoops action I thought I'd put together a quick visitors guide of things to do.

Obviously it's going to be impossible to miss St Louis Mardi Gras that will be going on this weekend. Saturday is the parade from Busch Stadium to the Brewery and then the party lasts all day in Soulard.

After that, in 2005 I wrote a three part series of things to do in St. Louis during the NCAA tourney. Yes it's a touch dated, but the bulk of it still applies, so here's the links to those. Just know if you decide on a specific restaurant based on a 2005 review I made, check with your hotel's desk clerk to see if it's still in business.

Darin "Sid" Cameron spent 15 years working in the technology industry which in 1998 relocated him to St. Louis. In 2004 he took over web development tasks for Kimberly's real estate team and later became the full-time Marketing and Operations Director in 2005. In 2011 Sid launched two brokerages, The Realty Store, Inc. and Realty Referral Partners, Inc, while continuing to perform marketing and operations for Kimberly's team. Sid holds a real estate broker's license in Missouri, CRS certification and was the first CyberStar in the St. Louis area.